January 20, 1900

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Features

Legislative Foolishness

American Goods in Russia

Official Trial of the United States Cruiser "Albany"

The Isthmian Canal

A Remarkable Collection of Lamps

Magnetism of the Earth

The "Kaiser Wilhelm" Again Breaks her Record

Torpedo Boat Makes over 35 Knots an Hour

A Warning to the Inventor

Palisade Preservation

British and Boer Guns--A Lesson from the South African War

By Godfrey L. Carden

The New Croton Dam--New York City's Water Supply

A Guard for the Projecting Parts of Machinery

The Pierce Cushion-Frame, Chainless Bicycle

An Improved Chain Pipe-Wrench

How a Weather Map is Made

Discovery of Cliff Dwellings in the Southwest

By George Wharton James

The Armament of our Latest Warships

Electro-magnetic Rotation

By Howard B. Dailey

The Danilewsky Flying Machine

Departments

Departments

Correspondence - January 20, 1900

Business and Personal - January 20, 1900

Recently Patented Inventions - January 20, 1900

Notes and Queries - January 20, 1900

Index of Inventions - January 20, 1900

Patents - January 20, 1900

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